21 - Do the 7 Families of Additive Manufacturing Technologies Still Make Sense?

Jul 11, 2022

Additive manufacturing contains more than 3D printing, but even this term carries multiple meanings. 3D printing might mean extruding plastic, or depositing binder into metal, or melting material with lasers, or any number of other things. In this episode, Stephanie Hendrixson and Peter Zelinski try to stump each other with some unusual 3D printing processes and consider whether the "Seven Families of Additive Manufacturing Technologies" are still relevant 10 years after they were created.

 

This episode is brought to you by the Additive Manufacturing Conference at IMTS.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) 101
• Meld Manufacturing's solid-state process based on friction stir welding
• Grid Logic's multimaterial powder bed technology
• Fabrisonic's Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing and application examples
• More on Massivit's Gel Dispensing Printing and how it can be applied for Cast In Motion, a way of quickly producing tooling for composites

• Moldjet process, as described in a video from Tritone

• A downloadable and printable version of ASTM's 7 Families of Additive Manufacturing
• Cold spray 3D printing from Spee3D
• Vatless vat photopolymerization from BCN3D
• Metal FFF options from Rapidia, Markforged, Desktop Metal and BASF
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